then pissed your body kinda goes into limbo Some cray **** happens. Idon't do bikes mate. far to wacky. I did wreck a nissan navara once. indistructable my arse
Survived a nasty bike accident when I was around 21 years old. Cycled out in front of a 17.5 ton delivery truck and got it side on. Bike folded in half. I woke up in the road sometime later and only realised what was going on when the paramedics arrived. Got away with cuts, bruises, broken toes and cracked ribs. Could have been splatted out all over the road.
Ouch. You must have made a pact with the devil to survive that. Why would you pull out in front of a big **** off lorry?
You seen some **** in the forces Commy ? One of my best mates was in the Irish tank regiment in the first gulf war and I've done a lot of work with him subsequently through a surf charity working with Vets with PTSD. Some of the stuff they have told me is horrendous. Nobody should have to go through that ****. Also mate of mine Chris back in London was a fireman. He was based in Paddington and his unit were one of the first on the scene after the big rail crash there some years ago. He was also called out to loads of jumpers on the underground and people who'd jumped in front of trains, buses etc. ****ing nasty stuff.
Sounds crazy but I didn't see it. It was back in London on a dual carrigeway where I lived and I was so used to bombing down the shops on my bike, that I didn't notice that they'd closed one side of the road for repairs. So they had traffic going both ways on one side. I just checked right over my shoulder, nothing coming so cycled out into the road, straight into the path of a big truck. I don't remember anything about the accident, other than when the paramedics put a neck brace on me and lifted my up on the stretcher, and there was the scene played out in front of me.
Seen loads mate.Body parts, faces missing, kids dead, women dead. But like you my best mate is a paramedic. Them and firemen see **** all the time. They just cracking on with it. No bleating.
A couple of my mates down here are in the Coastguard rescue team. I'm thinking about joining up as they've got a recruitment drive. It's voluntary, but you get to play with some good kit and toys. My friend Sarah who is a tiny dot of a woman has got balls of ****ing steel and she often has to abseil down cliff faces to retrieve bit of people who have either fallen or jumped from cliffs. She was telling me about a german tourist who was cycling the coast path down here last summer, he was clipped in and misjudged a corner and went 100ft over the cliff. She had to climb down and put him in the cradle and winch him back up, grim stuff. I've only ever seen one dead body. That was a bloke who'd drowned in Costa Rica. He was a bit overweight and out of shape and he'd taken on some pounding surf and got held down and drowned. Not sure how I'd react to seeing a broken body in bits to be honest.
Yeah I know cheeky ****ers. I phoned the driver a few weeks after the accident to apologise for cycling out in front of his truck. He was so grateful to hear from me. He said that he saw this bloke out the corner of his eye, slammed on the brakes but couldn't stop. He heard the bang of the truck hitting me and then felt his truck crush something under the wheels. He said he thought he was going to get out of the cab and see me splatted all over the road. Poor ****er
Its not so bad, we all go one way or another. Some daft ****s even end up underneath a git big silent lorry
Most accidents can be avoided. But as a race we really are ****ing stupid. Try watching some russian driving videos. those mad bastards are all suicidal.
My accident was a case of complacency. I was so used to cycling across that dual carriageway that I just failed to notice that they had traffic going both ways on one side. The whole thing must have taken 2 seconds from me deciding to cycle out and then ending up in a heap on the road.
Like iv'e said, us humans really are stupid. From Harry tippier breaking his nose doing as somersault, to you trying to take on a lorry with a mountain bike.
